Resilience, Inclusivity, Solidarity
Feros is a Belgian collective of facilitators organising workshops and activities around
emotional resilience
inclusivity
feminist self-defence
In this way we support individuals, groups, collectives and organisations that work towards social and ecological justice.
Our training style
Our facilitation is based in experiential learning. Our methods engage participants on the level of heart (emotions), head (thinking and concepts) and hands (practical experience / embodiment).
Our facilitators don’t position themselves as experts, but rather draw on the collective experience and knowledge present in the group. We aim to create a group culture of radical care balancing self-care with collective care and accountability.
All of our trainings are firmly rooted in a queer, intersectional, decolonial, anti-capitalist feminist political analysis. While we still have a lot to learn we are inspired by abolitionist and disability justice movements and try to implement these values in our trainings.
We organise both open workshops, to which anyone can apply, and bespoke workshops for existing organisations, groups or collectives, working towards social- and ecological justice.
Emotional resilience
Inclusivity
Self-defense
Feminist Self-Defense
Knowing how to defend ourselves from verbal, emotional and physical violence is a key tool for the survival of women and LGBTQIA+ folks - whilst living in a neo-colonial cis-heteronormative capitalist patriarchy,
Inclusivity
Becoming more aware of our privileges, gaining skills in navigating power dynamics and deepening our understanding of systems of oppression are some of the first steps in creating more inclusive groups.
Emotional Resilience
Emotional resilience can help people 'bounce back' after stress or difficulty and help us to either prevent or cope with burn-out or post-traumatic stress. A resilient group culture supports our collectives and organisations to survive, adapt and become more efficient at creating lasting change.
Bespoke for your group
We offer bespoke workshops or group processes that we design specifically for your group/collective/organisation, based on your needs and requests. We can offer facilitation in English, French or Dutch or a combination of these languages.
Solidarity Economy
We strive to offer our trainings to those who need them, regardless of their financial capacity.
As a young collective we don’t have any ongoing sources of funding and are largely dependent on participant donations. We are continuously looking for creative solutions to lower (financial) barriers to participation.
For each training we will indicate the reel costs of the training as well as making a suggestion for your contribution. Those who can afford to contribute more, create space for others to contribute less (financially).
Solidarity Economy
“Take what you need and give what you can”.
Testimonials
I still want to learn (more about) LGBTQAI+ (inclusivity) and notice that I already dare to be a bit more imperfect and thus can face mistakes and flaws (in myself) to work on further. Thanks for all the links and reading tips.
The open, honest vulnerable testimonies of the other participants, including those of the facilitators. It made it all very human and instructive.
It was great to have self defense techniques from queer feminist perspective that are based on somatics, lived experience and body based understanding. Which differs from most traditional approaches which are “education” based for women, being essentialist and therefore queerphobic.
